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Given the complexity of the historical factors involved, it is difficult to say with precision why the 'spirit of compromise' in America between anti- and pro-slavery forces broke down by 1860. In general terms, however, one can quite accurately state that leading Southerners had at last determined that their way of life was on the edge of extinction: for them, given the election of the 'abolitionist' Abraham Lincoln, to do anything less than secede would have been to betray the South's core values and beliefs.

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